Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley, alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have introduced the Ban Flock Act — federal legislation to prohibit government use of Flock Safety’s 120,000-camera AI license plate network and defund jurisdictions that refuse to follow suit.
The Department of Homeland Security diverted $20 million in Customs and Border Protection funds to produce and air campaign-style TV ads glorifying President Trump — ads critics say are nearly identical to his 2024 campaign commercials and likely violate federal anti-propaganda laws.
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon has legal authority to blacklist Anthropic for refusing to remove ethical restrictions on its Claude AI models, even without any finding of malicious intent, creating a direct conflict with a separate federal court ruling that found the same action unlawful.
Flock Safety partnered with a newly created nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to use AI-assisted outreach to manufacture public support for its license plate reader cameras in Knox County, Tennessee — a campaign residents and critics have called corporate astroturfing.
Boston terminated its contract with Flock Safety after the surveillance company’s systems shared license plate data from Boston Police cameras with law enforcement agencies nationwide, violating explicit contractual restrictions, according to the city’s 2025 annual surveillance technology report.
DHS used a century-old customs law to demand Google hand over the personal data of a Canadian critic who hadn’t entered the U.S. in over a decade, exposing a sweeping expansion of digital surveillance powers that now extend well beyond American borders.
OpenAI’s 2026 AI agent breach of Hugging Face was a genuine containment failure — but the narrative machine that followed reveals how a technical incident becomes a tool for marketing, regulatory capture, and public conditioning.
Pentagon Special Government Employee Jennica Pounds, known online as DataRepublican, has documented ties to an anonymous hacker persona that publicized cyberattacks on left-wing infrastructure — raising serious questions about federal complicity in hacking operations against political dissidents.
A technical investigation by Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs found that LG smart TVs scan home networks to identify and catalog every connected device — including phones and smartwatches — and can store microphone audio even while disconnected from the internet.
At least 214 communities have ended their relationship with Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, with 90 cancellations in August 2026 alone, as privacy concerns, police abuse scandals, and AI surveillance fears drive a historic grassroots backlash.
ICE granted thousands of unvetted new hires access to Palantir’s ELITE targeting app — which draws on Medicaid records, immigration data, and commercial databases — before their background checks were completed, according to ICE whistleblowers and former DHS officials.
The CDC removed two measles deaths confirmed by Pennsylvania from its national data after Health Secretary RFK Jr. publicly questioned their validity — a move that breaks with the established precedent of states determining their own case and death classifications.
The Pentagon has secretly placed conservative military veteran influencers in undisclosed civilian government roles where they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messaging and attack administration critics, according to a Washington Post investigation.
The Trump administration’s terror sanctions against the Italy-based A/I Collective — a privacy-focused web hosting and email provider used by antifascist and anarchist groups — set a precedent that could erase anonymous political speech online across the United States.
A federal district court has ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of AI developer Anthropic as a ‘supply-chain risk to national security’ was unconstitutional retaliation and an abuse of executive authority.
Documents obtained by The Guardian and the Associated Press directly contradict HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation testimony that his 2019 Samoa trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines.’
Earthjustice has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump EPA’s approval of two datacenter chemicals the agency itself admits pose an ‘unreasonable risk,’ including the potential for sudden death, cancer, and neurological harm.
A CENTCOM public affairs official confirmed on the record that the Pentagon maintains a secret blacklist of journalists to ‘disregard,’ threatening to add a reporter to it for asking too many questions during the ongoing Iran war.
Cities across the U.S. are mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to scan residential neighborhoods for code violations, raising documented questions about data retention, access, and the expanding architecture of municipal surveillance.
Internal FCC documents obtained via FOIA reveal that Chairman Brendan Carr attended at least eight White House meetings and held scheduled calls with senior Trump officials — including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — while publicly refusing to discuss the nature of his communications with the administration.
Internal ICE emails obtained via FOIA reveal U.S. immigration officials coordinated directly with the Iranian government to arrange deportation flights carrying over 100 Iranian nationals to Tehran — even as the Trump administration prepared military strikes against Iran.
A Nevada solar energy permit was quietly converted into approval for a 170-megawatt AI data center for a Texas investment fund — without new public comment or environmental review — raising questions about how federal public land is being allocated during the AI infrastructure boom.
Court documents reveal ICE’s ‘Operation Puppet Master’ deployed undercover agents to infiltrate Minneapolis activist meetings, subpoena union financial records, and attempt to entice at least one Sunrise Movement organizer toward confrontational tactics.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly described a future AI world with ‘no freedom, no agency, and no privacy’ — then identified AI safety advocates, not developers, as the primary cause of that risk.
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump Media’s Truth API — a service charging up to $100,000 per month for early access to the president’s official social media announcements — as a violation of First and Fifth Amendment rights.